Elections were scheduled for March 2019. Zelenski's main opponents were the incumbent President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and the former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko.
He won the first round of the election on March 31, 2019, with more than 30 % of the vote. In the second round, held on April 21, 2019, he faced Petro Poroshenko and won more than 73% of the vote.
